09-13-2011, 01:52 AM
space-time wrote:
so I think a complicated calculator is in fact not good for students, all they really need is something like the Calculator application from OS X or Windows, in Scientific mode (not basic). A calculator like this can be bought for $10 or less.
that's all well and good as long as the student has someone in the home to teach them how to do what you describe. if the school is teaching calculator methods, for better or worse, that's the only kind of instruction the kid is going to get from the school and if she doesn't have a calculator with which to do it the only way the school teaches then she is going to fail.